Richard Wilkes
Olympia, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarRichard Wilkes is a veteran software engineer and engineering leader with over three decades of hands-on experience building developer tools, profilers, IDEs, and large-scale microservice ecosystems. He drove key platform work at Apple (AppKit, Carbon and runtime subsystems) and Sun (a Java-based Excel-class spreadsheet), then led teams that delivered ARM’s Streamline profiler and DS-5 debugger releases from prototype to product. More recently he championed Go adoption at Fanatics, architecting a shared framework used by nearly a thousand projects and authoring critical microservices and integrations for large-scale acquisitions. Known for inventing continuous hardware-trace profiling and a near-instantaneous trace replay engine, he blends low-level systems insight with product-minded leadership. Based in Olympia, Washington, he repeatedly acts as both hands-on technical lead and manager, turning prototypes into shipping products while contributing fixes upstream to open source.
12 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
English
Stackoverflow
307reputation
17kreached
8answers
2questions
Github Skills (104)
programming-language10
toolbox10
windows10
fyne10
interpreter10
gcp10
linter10
runner10
unix10
linux10
rpg10
webapp10
character-sheet10
golang10
compiler10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
richardwilkes/mupdf
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:11 releases, 16 commits, 29 pushes in 9 months
richardwilkes/scaleimg
Nov 2019 - Jul 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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